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Originating from the conceptual combination of "人" and "水", the character "氽" visually implies a person floating on water, which defined its early sense of buoyancy or drifting. This core meaning facilitated a later application to deep-frying in cooking, a process characterized by the flotation of food in heated oil. The character's form, consistently built from these two components, has not undergone significant alteration, and it exists without a traditional variant that required simplification.